Teaching Youngsters Programming

I've just got my RPi, with a view to checking out its capability. Once upon a time I was a physics teacher and later became a software engineer because programming is so much fun.So I'm disappointed, like others, that ICT in schools often seems to come down to using Word and Excel. I like the idea of catching kids early and showing them how to create simple programs.I think KTurtle would be good for that. It is fun, and procedural via its learn command.See Turtle tracks on my (RPi hosted) blog.

Thanks, that insipred me to check out python-turtle-graphics. See Python tracks on my (RPi hosted) blog. There are loads of examples and they get quite sophisticated - plenty to keep young whiz-kids interested.